[Tutor] Converting problem sets from other languages into Python?

[Daniel Yoo]

Hiya everyone,

A while back, some people asked for sample problems that they could do to
test out their fluency in Python.  Usually, self-motivated projects are
idea at letting people make their knowledge relevant, but sometimes,
people don't know where to start!

Perhaps we should also provide a small "problem set" repository.  Sorta
like mini-exercises, with some hints at how to approach a problem.  
Useless Python already does a little bit of this with its Python
Challenges at:

    http://www.lowerstandard.com/python/pythonchallenge.html

and perhaps this can be extended with more problems.

In short: why not stea... er... convert problems from some textbooks to
make them Python-relevant?  By providing these practical problems, we'd
let people gain more confidence as they find they can do these things.  
Extending "Useless Python", we can have "Useless Python Problems".  
*grin*


I have a few problems written in Scheme, which I should be able to convert
into Python:

    http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/cs3/doublets.pdf
    http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/cs3/wordprocessing.pdf

(which have too much of a CS flavor, admittedly, but I have to start
somewhere.)

What do people think?